REPEAT/ CCBN Authors New Roadmap for Navigating Investor Relations in Cyberspace.

Business/Technology Editors

REPEATING...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001

"Investor Relations in the Internet Age: A CCBN Perspective" Provides

Communications Professionals with Best Practices in

Wake of Regulation FD

CCBN (www.ccbn.com), the leading provider of Internet-based shareholder communications services, today announced the availability of the book, Investor Relations in the Internet Age: A CCBN Perspective. The book, authored by CCBN co-founders Jeff Parker and Rob Adler, provides insight to companies on how to leverage the Internet effectively to maximize investor relations (IR) efforts and comply with the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD) rules. Investor Relations in the Internet Age: A CCBN Perspective is the first guidebook to clearly define the role of the Internet in IR. The book is now available on Amazon.com.

The Internet provides companies with one of the best means to communicate instantaneously with Wall Street and the individual investment community. Investor Relations in the Internet Age: A CCBN Perspective provides practical advice and direction to public companies looking to take advantage of the Internet for their IR programs. This comprehensive guide assists companies in exploring the following topics:

--Designing an IR Web site--learn about the importance of a site's content, how to draw a crowd of visitors that will turn into investors and what some public companies are doing to leverage their IR sites.

--Webcasting--find out why webcasting is important, which corporate events can be webcast and answers to commonly asked questions.

--Effective investor communications--explore ways to reach both institutional investors and individual investors.

--Modernizing IR--learn ways to marry the use of the Web and new technologies with conventional IR methods like press releases and mail fulfillment.

--Regulation Fair Disclosure-- understand the general practices Regulation FD demands, how to hold a compliant conference call and the advantages of push technology.

"We are using our expansive knowledge of the investor relations industry to provide companies with a resource that will aid them in becoming more efficient in getting their messages out to the investment community," said Rob Adler, president of CCBN and co-author of Investor Relations in the Internet Age: A CCBN Perspective. "We want to provide the guidance public companies need to develop successful online investor relations practices."

Wall Street professionals as well as individual investors turn to CCBN for customized, direct information from more than 6,000 public companies. "CCBN has become the leading online financial information resource," said Jeff Parker, CEO of CCBN and co-author of Investor Relations in the Internet Age: A CCBN Perspective. "We work with more than 2,500 public companies worldwide to build, manage and host their IR Web sites and webcast more than 3,000 events each quarter. Now we've packaged our knowledge from this collective experience into a user-friendly reference manual for corporate CFO's and IRO's."

About the Authors

Jeffrey P. Parker co-founded CCBN is 1997 and has served as the company's Chairman and CEO since its inception. Prior to founding CCBN, he co-founded 38 Newbury Ventures, a venture capital firm which focuses on start-up and early stage companies. In 1980, Parker founded Technical Data Corporation. In 1982, he became Chairman and CEO of Business Research Corporation and in 1983 founded First Call Corporation. He sold these businesses in 1986 to International Thomson, now the Thomson Corporation, and became Chairman and CEO of Thomson Financial, its financial services subsidiary. As the creator and CEO of several successful financial services companies over the past twenty years, he brings an operating perspective to the companies in which he invests, as well as a wealth of financial expertise and an extended network of domestic and international business.

Robert I. Adler co-founded CCBN in 1997 and has served as the company's President since its inception. Adler has a proven track record in building successful technology startups. CCBN, his second successful company, is a fast-growing technology startup providing the effective and efficient dissemination of shareholder information via several communication channels. He is responsible for both the strategic direction and day-to-day operation of the company. Adler is an active writer and speaker in the IR arena. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences and has published several white papers about the Internet and investor relations.

About CCBN

Co-founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, and Robert Adler, CCBN is the global leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. CCBN builds, manages and hosts the investor relations sections of Web sites for more than 2,500 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multi-media solutions. In addition, CCBN hosts live and archived quarterly conference calls for more than 3,000 corporations each quarter. Through its StreetEvents institutional event management database, (www.streetevents.com) and partnerships with leading retail financial portals, CCBN has created a revolutionary investor distribution network that delivers an unprecedented body of direct corporate information to the largest collective audience of institutional and individual investors in cyberspace. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., CCBN has additional offices in San Francisco and London. For more information visit www.ccbn.com or call 617-801-7900.